Posted on 05/03/2023 4:24:33 PM PDT by Coronal
A New York judge tossed Donald Trump’s $100 million lawsuit against the New York Times and ordered him to pay all of the paper’s legal fees, according to a ruling Wednesday.
The former president’s claims that the Gray Lady and three of its reporters hatched an “insidious plot” to get his private tax records “fail as a matter of constitutional law,” New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed wrote in the decision.
In the 2021 suit, the embattled 45th president alleged that Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner schemed with Trump’s niece, Mary, to disclose his 20-year-old documents.
But the paper’s newsgathering — which ultimately exposed Trump’s tax woes in a Pulitzer-winning 2018 article — was “at the very core of protected First Amendment activity,” the judge ruled.
Reed dismissed the case in part because the Times’ reporting was “a matter of high public interest,” he wrote.
“The New York Times is pleased with the judge’s decision today,” a paper spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Daily Beast.
“It is an important precedent reaffirming that the press is protected when it engages in routine newsgathering to obtain information of vital importance to the public.”
Claims against the ex-president’s niece have yet to be ruled upon.
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There are no fair trials in blue states.
A New York Judge! No surprise here.
Every court, judge, magistrate, and parking lady has it out for Trump.
I wonder if they all go to the conspiracy meetings.l..or is it possible that Trumps lawyers just suck?
It’s remarkable to me that a “journalist” and an “editor” can publish that story without ever even naming the judge.
May they rot in hell
Does anyone really think Trump will get a “Not Guilty” verdict in the current rape trial? The fix is in, folks.
A jury of his peers? Void in the State of New York.
The Federal appeals courts are his only hope.
“”to obtain information of vital importance to the public.””
Yeah - Weren’t we all sitting around holding our breath waiting for this information? VITAL IMPORTANCE? That’s baloney! I hope all these judges get their comeuppance some day.
Federal law prohibits disclosing tax records, especially as HSPII. This case needs to go to a sane court.
If Trump wanted to attack someone he should attack this judge and say, “Well, then , judge, once I get back in office, I am releasing your tax records as they are a matter of public interest.”
This is getting ridiculous. It is a combined effort to continue bringing him before dirty evil paid off black robes in New York. He does not have a chance in hell to win any case in that piece of shit state. But let them continue. Texas Will keep sending invader criminal immigrants to New York so that it can really honestly tank! We’ll continue to send the cartel, the MS 16-15 or whatever the hell they’re called and all the criminals towards New York! Paybacks a bitch!
Forget it, Donald. It’s New York.
We’re not a nation of laws.
We’re a nation of Democrat lawyers.
This would be a pre-trial motion to dismiss, and it’ll be appealed.
No way in hell Trump can win in northeast. Maybe he should try Florida? Oh wait...he says Florida can’t suck too much (even though he chooses to live there). What’s the guy to do?
yup trump will be found guilty and pedo Joe and his clan skate, for now. Thankfully God sorts things out at some point in the future.
...he press is protected when it engages in routine newsgathering.... Tell me, when has the press ever engaged in routine newsgathering when it came to Donald Trump?
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